Data communications to trains from high-altitude platforms

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 4 II, 2007, Pages 2253-2266

  White, George P ^a   Zakharov, Yuriy V ^b  

^a QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Array signal processing; High altitude platforms (HAPs); Smart antennas; Stratospheric platforms; Tracking filters

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; RAIL MOTOR CARS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SMART ANTENNAS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINES;

ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; HIGH-ALTITUDE PLATFORM; SIGNAL-TO-INTEFERENCE-PLUS-NOISE RATIO;

DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 34547872346     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.897185     Document Type: Article

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